Online Continuing Education Courses

Primary Care Medicine: Foundations of Medical Screening

• Define and distinguish between primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, direct access, medical screening, screening for referral and signed prescription.
• Recall 5 reasons to conduct a medical screening.
• Outline 5 components for effective communication during the patient interview to obtain accurate and comprehensive baseline information.
• Define and explain the relevance of yellow flags, red flags and flag clusters as part of the medical screening process
• Define and describe the five components of the patient-centered interview and state the impact this has on patient satisfaction and outcome
• Define and provide the clinical relevance of sensitivity, specificity, odds ratios, and likelihood ratios as they pertain to the value of diagnostic/clinical tests